Your colleague was excited to tell you about having the opportunity to attend a 2012 presentation on Global Health Strategy by Kathleen Sebelius, the 21st Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services. Even though you could not attend, you can view the 16-minute video recording at http://www.globalhealth.gov/global-programs-and-initiatives/global-health-strategy/index.html
That started you thinking about global health policy and what we can do to change the world, so you decided to explore and learn more.Assignment
1 Take the Global Health Policy Quiz at http://kff.org/quiz/global-health-policy-quiz/ . In 1 page, please discuss how well you did (or didnt do). Which answers surprised you? What did you learn? How will you use your new level of awareness?
2 After viewing the slides at A Conversation About How We Change the World by Melinda Gates (9/17/13), write a 1-page response to the question on the final slide in that presentation. Be sure to support your response with evidence and citations.
Some of the information you learned from the video of Kathleen Sebelius presentation on Global Health Strategy should help you with this part of the assignment.
The slides are available at http://www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2013/09/Explaining-the-MDGs,

Case

Teresa Jarmatt was a 52 year old legal clerk who received a block for chronic pain injuries with femoral nerve entrapment sustained following two different motor vehicle accidents.  Following the block procedure, she complained of severe numbness in her thigh and was not able to walk.  After several hours of observation, the pain clinic nurse, Ms. Terrell, noted that the patient reported the numbness had worn off.  The nurse than accompanied the patient to the cab stand across the street from the clinic.  The patient reported that when she arrived at her downtown apartment building and exited the taxi, she lost stability and crashed to the sidewalk, injuring her left ankle.
She was taken to a local emergency department where no fracture was identified.  The patient however insisted that she saw “bone sticking out of her ankle and heard it snap”.  Despite casting and physical therapy, the patient has limited range of motion in the ankle, suffers from chronic pain due to synovitis and may have reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
She charges that her condition was not appropriately monitored and she was prematurely discharged from the pain clinic while in an unstable condition, e.g., that she was unable to walk safely.  The defendants admitted that the plaintiff may have had some thigh numbness at the time of discharge, but denied that she was unable to walk safely.  Moreover, they contended that she had been offered hospitalization or the use of a wheelchair.  The plaintiff strongly denies this.  The defense disputed proximate cause based upon the testimony of the investigating police officer who stated that the plaintiff told him that she had been hurt when she slipped while crossing the street approximately one block away from where she supposedly exited the cab.

1.     Analyze for cause of action.
2.    What evidence suggests that the plaintiff’s testimony is inconsistent with the facts?
3.    At what point was the clinic no longer responsible for Teresa’s safety?
4.    What standards of care were abrogated in this case?  What about Forseeability?
5.    Discuss the application of personal liability and vicarious liability to this case regarding both the clinic and the nurse.

Case

Teresa Jarmatt was a 52 year old legal clerk who received a block for chronic pain injuries with femoral nerve entrapment sustained following two different motor vehicle accidents.  Following the block procedure, she complained of severe numbness in her thigh and was not able to walk.  After several hours of observation, the pain clinic nurse, Ms. Terrell, noted that the patient reported the numbness had worn off.  The nurse than accompanied the patient to the cab stand across the street from the clinic.  The patient reported that when she arrived at her downtown apartment building and exited the taxi, she lost stability and crashed to the sidewalk, injuring her left ankle.
She was taken to a local emergency department where no fracture was identified.  The patient however insisted that she saw “bone sticking out of her ankle and heard it snap”.  Despite casting and physical therapy, the patient has limited range of motion in the ankle, suffers from chronic pain due to synovitis and may have reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
She charges that her condition was not appropriately monitored and she was prematurely discharged from the pain clinic while in an unstable condition, e.g., that she was unable to walk safely.  The defendants admitted that the plaintiff may have had some thigh numbness at the time of discharge, but denied that she was unable to walk safely.  Moreover, they contended that she had been offered hospitalization or the use of a wheelchair.  The plaintiff strongly denies this.  The defense disputed proximate cause based upon the testimony of the investigating police officer who stated that the plaintiff told him that she had been hurt when she slipped while crossing the street approximately one block away from where she supposedly exited the cab.

1.     Analyze for cause of action.
2.    What evidence suggests that the plaintiff’s testimony is inconsistent with the facts?
3.    At what point was the clinic no longer responsible for Teresa’s safety?
4.    What standards of care were abrogated in this case?  What about Forseeability?
5.    Discuss the application of personal liability and vicarious liability to this case regarding both the clinic and the nurse.